Directly from the family estate collection of Barney Stein comes this 8x10 original photos of Jackie Robinson meeting King Faisal II of Iraq when the young leader visited Ebbets Field on Aug. 13, 1952, during an ambassador trip to New York. The photo shows them seated as Jackie reviews a paper document on the table. What an interesting conversation these two must have had!


The photo comes from the famous Dodgers photographer's camera many years later. The reverse has a Barney Stein stamp.


YEAR/ERA: August 13, 1952


GENERATION: First


PHOTOGRAPHER: Barney Stein


SIZE: 8 x 10


CONDITION: Mint


PROVENANCE: Letter from Barney Stein's daughter, Bonnie (Stein) Crosby


The famous meeting of King Faisail II is featured on pages 67 and 88 of Through a Blue Lens, a 2007 book by Bonnie Crosby and Dennis D'Agostino (forewords by Peter O'Malley and Carl Erskine) that chronicled Barney Stein's 1937-1957 Brooklyn Dodgers photography.